Surgical management of Merkel cell carcinoma

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 229, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 97-105

  Allen, Peter J ^a   Zhang, Zuo Feng ^a   Coit, Daniel G ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0033504128     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199901000-00013     Document Type: Article

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